Stereoscopic display device with patterned retarder and method for driving the same

Abstract

A stereoscopic display device includes a 3D formatter for aligning a left eye image data and a right eye image data received from an outside of the stereoscopic display device in an interlaced method and forwarding the same, a data compensating unit for selecting a compensation data on the left eye image data and the right eye image data received from the 3D formatter from a compensation look-up table having the compensating data on the left eye image data and the right eye image data on each gray scale preset thereon, and compensating the left eye image data and the right eye image data, and a panel driving unit for displaying the left eye image data and the right eye image data from the data compensating unit on a display unit alternately in lines.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A stereoscopic display device comprising:
 a 3D formatter for aligning a left eye image data and a right eye image data received from an outside of the 3D formatter in an interlaced method and forwarding the same; 
 a data compensating unit configured to: 
 compare the left eye image data with the right eye image data received from the 3D formatter, the left eye image data and the right eye image data to be displayed simultaneously in the interlaced method, and 
 select compensation data, matched to both the left eye image data and the right eye image data, from a compensation look-up table having the compensation data on the left eye image data and the right eye image data on each gray scale preset thereon, and 
 compensate the left eye image data or the right eye image data using the selected compensation data, wherein the compensation data includes a first preset gray scale adjustment value for the left eye image data or a second preset gray scale adjustment value for the right eye image data; and 
 a panel driving unit configured to display the left eye image data and the right eye image data from the data compensating unit simultaneously on a display unit alternately in lines, 
 wherein: 
 the compensation data is to compensate for a brightness difference on each gray scale caused by interference between the left eye image data in a left eye line to be displayed simultaneously with and adjacent to the right eye image data in a right eye line, and the left eye line and the right eye line are alternately arranged and simultaneously displayed on the display unit, and 
 the data compensating unit adds or subtracts the selected compensation data to or from the left eye image data or the right eye image data received from the 3D formatter to compensate for the brightness difference between the left eye image data of the left eye line and the right eye image data of the right eye line. 
 
     
     
       2. The stereoscopic display device as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the data compensating unit includes:
 a memory for storing a first side image data of the left eye image data and the right eye image data from the 3D formatter, 
 the look-up table for selecting the compensation data matched to the first side data from the memory and a second side image data of the left eye image data and the right eye image data from the 3D formatter, and forwarding the selected compensation data, and 
 an arithmetic unit for compensating for the second side image data from the 3D formatter by adding or subtracting the selected compensation data to or from the second side image data, and forwarding the compensated second side image data. 
 
     
     
       3. A method for driving a stereoscopic display device, the method comprising:
 presetting compensation data matched to a left eye image data set and a right eye image data set on each gray scale for compensation of a left eye image and a right eye image and storing the same in a compensation look-up table; 
 comparing left eye image data with right eye image data, the left eye image data and the right eye image data to be displayed simultaneously in an interlaced method; 
 selecting compensation data matched to both the left eye image data and the right eye image data from the compensation look-up table to compensate the left eye image data or the right eye image data using the selected compensation data, wherein the compensation data includes a first preset gray scale adjustment value for the left eye image data or a second preset gray scale adjustment value for the right eye image data; and 
 displaying the compensated left eye image data and the right eye image data simultaneously on a display unit alternately in lines, 
 wherein: 
 the compensation data is to compensate for a brightness difference on each gray scale caused by interference between the left eye image in a left eye line to be displayed simultaneously with and adjacent to the right eye image in a right eye line, and the left eye line and the right eye line are alternately arranged and simultaneously displayed on the display unit, and 
 the selected compensation data is added or subtracted to or from the left eye image data or the right eye image data to compensate for the brightness difference between the left eye image of the left eye line and the right eye image of the right eye line. 
 
     
     
       4. The method as claimed in  claim 3 , wherein the selecting the compensation data includes:
 storing a first side image data of the left eye image data and the right eye image data in a memory, 
 selecting the compensation data matched to the first side data from the memory and a second side image data of the left eye image data and the right eye image data, and forwarding the selected compensation data, and 
 compensating for the second side image data by adding or subtracting the selected compensation data to or from the second side image data, and forwarding the compensated second side image data.